Practically all the sadness we experience in life comes from our feeling sorry for ourselves.
[T]here can be a form of vanity in grief that is indulged rather than suffered.
Her own misery filled her heart—there was no room in it for other people's sorrow.
His immense self-pity, his demand for sympathy poured and spread itself in pools at their feet, and all she did, miserable sinner that she was, was to draw her skirts a little closer round her ankles,...
Nations and individuals accept national and individual responsibility to take action to solve the problem, or else deny responsibility by self-pity, blaming others, and assuming the role of victim.
The only time we waste is the time we spend thinking we are alone.
An unearned income encourages self-pity in those already prone to it.
On my license, it says I'm an organ donor, but the truth is I'd consider being an organ martyr. I'm sure I'm worth a lot more dead than alive - the sum of the parts equal more than the whole. I wonder...
He didn't feel that way about anybody. You just live in the place you're in, you don't worry about where you used to be or where you wish you were, here is where you are and here's where you've got to...